Whether you've been following the timeline of The Legend of Zelda since the beginning or attempting to get caught up after playing recent titles, I think it's safe to say that you're probably at a loss in terms of understanding how everything correlates. Unfortunately, that's largely because most of what is considered canon depends on which timeline you're looking at .

With recent The Legend of Zelda releases, especially Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom , the timeline has gotten especially messy and difficult to follow. Since TOTK features a time-traveling element that takes Zelda back to pre-Hyrule, TOTK alone basically rewrites all of Zelda 's history from the very beginning without clarifying how everything else fits in.

The Zelda Timeline Has Only Gotten

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